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<div class="field-item even">LPR, body cams, data centers are topical in 2015</div>
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"> <p>SILVER SPRING, Md.—Legislation dealing with security technology, most notably body-cams for law enforcement and data centers’ tax status, made an appearance at the state level this year, according to SIA.</p>
<p>Other bills focused on mobile driver’s licenses and the use of license plate readers, Elizabeth Hunger, SIA’s manager of government relations, told <em>Security Systems News</em>.</p>
<p>“It’s exciting to see technology addressed,” she said, noting that proposed legislation on body-cams and data centers is new on the state front.</p>
<p>“These are the top trends in terms of volume of legislation, and they won’t be going away anytime soon,” she said. The measures likely will carry over into next year’s sessions as many states are in the process of wrapping up current session work.</p>
<p>In the wake of fatal shootings by police in Missouri and New York, and along with the establishment of the president’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, 95 bills about body-worn cameras for law enforcement turned up in 36 states, Hunger said.</p>
<p>“That’s a huge amount of legislation for just one issue,” she said.</p>
<p>The focus of the bills ranged from calling for feasibility studies to developing policies for how body-cams should be used, how their data should be used and how long the data should be retained, to requiring the use of cameras for law enforcement, she said.</p>
<p>Another topical issue is data centers. Thirty-eight bills in 15 states dealt with tax exemptions for data centers’ structures and equipment.</p>
<p>“There was an influx of legislation about that. This is really interesting for our industry as we move into a cloud-based world. Data centers are so important. There needs to be a physical space for the cloud,” Hunger said.</p>
<p>Governors in Missouri, Oregon and North Dakota have signed data center tax-exemptions into law, she said.</p>
<p>Nine states took up the issue of mobile driver’s licenses, a trend that “caught on pretty quickly” after Iowa and Delaware started allowing the use of a mobile app on smartphones as a driver’s license, Hunger said. Most of the 11 bills this year were for feasibility studies.</p>
<p>Legislation regarding the use of license plate readers primarily took two forms, those seeking an outright ban on LPRs and those addressing how information collected from LPRs should be stored and accessed and how long it should be retained. “This came up in 16 states. It had more traction this year,” she said.</p>
<p>As always, school security measures were introduced at the state level, from setting guidelines, to establishing emergency preparedness plans to creating, funding and refunding grant programs. Thirteen states have created grant programs for school security and the trend is slowing moving toward state-assistance for school technology, Hunger said.</p>
<p>Other security-related bills dealt with recurring issues, including copper replacement, low-voltage installation and automatic contract renewal.</p>
<p>In total, SIA and its local policy working group examined 430 pieces of state legislation this year.</p>
<p>“It’s fun when you see new trends emerge and where the states are going,” Hunger said. </p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="State legislatures and security technology" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 07 May 2015 14:56:45 +0000Spencer Ives18318 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/state-legislatures-and-security-technology#commentsWomen in Security: 2013 Special Reporthttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/blog/women-security-2013-special-report
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"> <p>The editorial mission of <em>Security Systems News</em> is distinct from other publications in the security industry. We focus on breaking business news (as opposed to products, how-to information or case studies). More specifically, we focus on writing stories that will help our readers make good decisions about their businesses.</p>
<p>In our November issue, we will dedicate one story in each section of our publication—Commercial and Systems Integration; Fire Installation; Monitoring; Residential; and Suppliers—to a woman leader in security. In addition, two women leaders—a consultant and a legislative expert—are profiled in our General News section. Those profiles will also be online this week.</p>
<p>This year, we interviewed Terry Basford of 4b Technology, Elizabeth Hunger of SIA, Karen Head of Kratos PSS, Jennifer Jezek of York Electronic Systems, Betsy Francis of AT&amp;T, Elle Daley of COPS Monitoring and Deb Spitler of HID.</p>
<p>It’s our annual Women in Security special report. This is the fifth year in row that we’ve compiled this report. We don’t go through a formal nominating process, so this is not a vote-driven selection. Rather, we ask our readers to send in nominations and then Tess, Leif and I decide who we’d like to profile.<br /> <br />I’m happy to tell you that we get more and more nominations every year. It seems like it’s not as difficult to find women leaders in all sectors of security as it was five years ago. The women who were nominated but were not chosen this year will, in many cases, be interviewed for SSN news articles in the future.</p>
<p>While the women profiled all have unique stories, there’s one noticeable common thread. They love their work and they’re making a difference in their respective workplaces. That’s the good news.</p>
<p>The not-so-good news is that we still hear about how women are “tested” in the boardroom or field because men assume they don’t understand technology, and we still see a paucity of women in the industry—across all sectors.</p>
<p>Read through the profiles in our Women in Security special report and you’ll notice how well this special report aligns with <em>Security Systems News’</em> editorial goal of helping you make good decisions about your business.</p>
<p>There are plenty of studies that show that there's a correlation between the presence of women in a company's boardroom and profitability. Time after time, studies reveal that companies that have a higher percentage of women executives also have higher corporate profitability on average. Period. Here’s <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/05/03/the_female_advantage/ ">a good story about those studies.</a></p>
<p>Of course, it’s difficult to prove causation—to show that the reason one company is profitable is because it hires more women executives.</p>
<p>However, ponder that correlation as you read through this year’s profiles. We believe this industry can use more people like HID’s Deb Spitler, Kratos’ Karen Head and the others profiled here.</p>
<p>Hiring smart, ambitious people is a good business move. Making the extra effort to hire a few smart, ambitious women, may prove to be an even better move for your business.</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="Women in Security: 2013 Special Report" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:19:27 +0000SSN Editor16894 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/blog/women-security-2013-special-report#commentsElizabeth Hunger: Finding inspiration in the Beltwayhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/elizabeth-hunger-finding-inspiration-beltway
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<div class="field-item even">For the fifth consecutive year, SSN is profiling women who are making their mark in the traditionally male-dominated world of security. Elizabeth Hunger, manager of government relations for SIA, is one of seven women featured.</div>
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<p>WASHINGTON—Coming from outside the industry isn’t necessarily a disadvantage. That’s something Elizabeth Hunger knows firsthand, having transitioned to the industry after serving three years as a program advisor for a global health project funded by the United States Agency for International Development or USAID. </p>
<p>Only a year into her tenure as manager of government relations for the Security Industry Association, Hunger is an authority on a host of state-level legislative affairs that concern the security industry—an area of focus that is fast-paced, demanding and dictated by legislative bodies at various levels. </p>
<p>Adjusting to such a career has its hurdles. Hunger’s gender, she said, hasn’t been one of them.</p>
<p>“I really think the collaborative nature of the industry is attracting a lot more women,” Hunger told Security Systems News. “It’s allowing more women to take on positions of authority.”</p>
<p>One of the younger members of SIA, Hunger says that women in her generation have an advantage compared to their predecessors because of the ever-expanding roster of influential women that they can cite as role models. </p>
<p>“It’s definitely not the world of 30 or 40 years ago,” Hunger said. “The workforce in general has changed so much. There are a lot of women executives out there, and so many inspiring women leaders in both the corporate and public sectors.”</p>
<p>In addition to professional growth, Hunger has pursued an academic course of studies that dovetails nicely with her capacities at SIA. A dual major in political science and Spanish as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, Hunger will graduate this December with a master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University. </p>
<p>She said that working in a high-octane, policy-driven environment like Washington, D.C., has exposed her to a higher concentration of women leaders and decision makers—or, in Hunger’s terms, “many powerhouse ladies in the Beltway.” </p>
<p>“Being on the younger end of folks in the industry, I can look at numerous examples of really smart, incredibly successful women leaders out there who paved the way for people like myself,” Hunger said.</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="Elizabeth Hunger: Finding inspiration in the Beltway" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:35:46 +0000Leah Hoenen16890 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/elizabeth-hunger-finding-inspiration-beltway#comments